Each time has that name eclipsed its predecessor, while recalling it for a moment to fresher memory: John Brown revived the story of Nat Turner, as in his day Nat Turner recalled the vaster schemes of Gabriel.

According to urban-studies professor Carola Hein, for instance, once Hiroshima "eclipsed" Tokyo as "the archetype of urban trauma in Japan," the significance of the capital's great 1923 earthquake shifted to something less devastating.